Weaknesses, this is an important novel because it shows the horrors of the When you think there’s nothing left, because there is always something to liveĪnd the lesson she tries to teach her granddaughter. Is the sentimental Epilogue really needed? Finally, how many naps do Birdie and Bobby Olha’s wedding opens Katya’s story, but herĭisappears, and then reappears at a convenient time. They’re used only to advance the plot and are then dismissed. Introduced, the narrative arc is obvious.Īnother problem is that secondary characters appear and then disappear The present timeline is very predictable from the moment Nick is Then, because readers learn Katya’s story before Cassie does, there is Narrative really slows down the novel’s pace. Is given Bobby’s journal, she doesn’t seem so anxious to learn what is in Life in Ukraine during the time her grandmother would have lived there? Cassie doesn’t know that Katya is Bobby?! Cassie never heard the Christian name of her However, when her grandmother didn’t co-operate, she never bothered to research Mentions trying “for years to interview Bobby for different research papers” That Cassie is irritating because she is so clueless. Katya’s heart-breaking story, but after a while, I just became impatient. Cassie’s chapters do provide a break from Spouse, a single mom, a perfectly behaving child, and a handsome, single neighbour. Mourning, but compared to Katya and what she endures, Cassie seems so whiny andĬharacteristics of a Hallmark movie: a dead I might have thought that some of the events described in the novel are Not read the non-fiction book Red Famine, Help of Nick Koval, a handsome neighbour, to translate it with her. She was a young girl because it is written in Ukrainian, Cassie enlists the Bobby gives Cassie a journal she kept when With Bobby, Cassie’s 92-year-old grandmother, to help care for her. In 2004 Illinois, 31-year-old Cassie isĬassie’s mother, convinces Cassie and her 5-year-old daughter Birdie to move in From then until Julyġ934, various of Katya’s relatives are arrested and deported or executed or starved. Then Stalin’s activists arrive to persuade villagers of the advantages Katya is living happily with her family (Tato, Mama and sister Alina) and In September 1929 in Ukraine, 16-year-old Storylines which are narrated in alternating chapters. Shevchenko family or people close to them. Had taken note of all the tragedies UkrainiansĮxperienced during the famine (as described by Applebaum) and had all these tragedies happen to the novel’s As I read Litteken’s novel, I felt like she Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anna Applebaum ( ),Ī book which Erin Litteken recommends in her Author’s Note at the end of The Memory Keeper of Kyiv.
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